Multichannel state of things

[Morphoice]

Ahoi!
I'm back taking up work on my liunndrum clone drum machine plugin again and was wondering if someone has worked with multichannel outputs lately and can tell me anything about the state of things there. Is it working properly with cubase? It would be a blast to have every drum sound routed to its own output for obvious mixing reasons.

is there a complete working tutorial on how to set things up for multichannel? when I tried it a year ago i failed miserably
also what method of setup do I provide to the user? like a dropdown box on each instrument channel to select where to route it? or can I predefined everything?

All the best
Morph

[lijas90]

@Morphoice What was in this post worked for me.
https://forum.hise.audio/topic/7488/multi-channel-multi-output-help/9

[Chazrox]

@Morphoice You def can do that. Just make sure to set NUM_MAX_CHANNELS=INT? . I believe thats the right preDef. I have a drum machine im working on that uses 24 chnls. The plugin has breakout options for (ALL triggers --> Stereo) (1-16 triggers--> 12-Stereo Pairs). I grouped my outputs like Hats, Percs, Cymbals have group channels because we only get max 12 stereo pairs and drum pad vst's usually have 16 triggers. Thats the method im using rn. Works great. I havent tested in Cubase but it works fine in Ableton and Logic. Im able to print stems or route to external tracks for processing.

[Christoph Hart]

I‘m using multichannel outputs with scripted dynamic routing in Triaz so yeah it works.

[Chazrox]

@Christoph-Hart You made Triaz???

[David Healey]

@Chazrox said in Multichannel state of things:

@Christoph-Hart You made Triaz???

Christoph knocked that out in an afternoon while sipping red wine.

[Chazrox]

@d-healey faak. Im over here pulling my hair out rn.

Damn hes good. damn..just damn. ha.

[Christoph Hart]

@Chazrox yup, I coded it (the design and concept were done by Wave Alchemy though). The broadcaster system is in HISE because I needed something to handle the complexity of Triaz.

It wasn't exactly an afternoon, more like 18 months...

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart said in Multichannel state of things:

It wasn't exactly an afternoon, more like 18 months...

Thank God they decided not to go with me....

[Morphoice]

Awesome! What would be the best practice for a linndrum thingy? I have a gated reverb using the convolution, so that would either require me to have 16 instances of it for each drum sound or use it as a send effect which kind of defeats the whole idea of letting the user process individual channels. so compression and reverb are probably best removed.

usually drum samples are mono, so with 16 channels i could have every pad sent to an output, however that would be total overkill in the daw. also having the output sent to mono channels in some daws doesnt let you use stereo plugins on them. so it would be best toe.g. have 8 stereo outputs and give the user a sort of routing page to select which sound should be in which channel.... or maybe predefined them in groups? Kick, Snare, Toms, Hats, Clap, Perc... which is how I myself would usually setup my mixes... then maybe have a FX channel for the verb again....

decisions, decisions....

[dannytaurus]

@Morphoice I realised a drum plugin with 8 stereo outputs and a reverb and filter.

My compromise was to put the reverb and filter on the main 1+2 outputs. Then the user has a choice of sending the sounds out of 1+2 and use the built-in effects, or route them to any other output and use their own DAW effects.

[Morphoice]

@dannytaurus that makes sense

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